''Synchiropus grinnelli'', the Philippines dragonet, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of fish in the dragonet family

Callionymidae Dragonets are small percomorph marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek ''kallis'', "beautiful" and ', "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are benthic organisms, spending most of ...

. It is found in the western-central Pacific from the Philippines to Indonesia. This species reaches a length of .

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of

Joseph Grinnell Joseph P. Grinnell (February 27, 1877 – May 29, 1939) was an American field biologist and zoologist. He made extensive studies of the fauna of California, and is credited with introducing a method of recording precise field observations known ...

(1877-1939), who was Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California in Berkeley, California.

References

grinnelli Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish of East Asia Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Fish described in 1941 {{Callionymidae-stub